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Anonymous
2024-02-14T16:02:08+00:00

Why can't Edge just have a "Restore Previous Session" button available when Edge unexpectedly shuts down? Firefox is a breeze with that feature. Edge has the user going through all sorts of time-consuming and confusing gyrations to get to the previous session (a "session" being all the tabs that were open before the site crashed or the computer did an update/restart). Microsoft Edge should be an improvement, not a fail.

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-11-18T11:49:54+00:00

    Thanks for your input Drew1903 and yes it usually does when I close Edge from Task Manager but on this occasion it was closed by an unwanted, uninvited Windows Update and the Restore button did not appear and all attempts to trick it into doing so by changing file names and deleting other files had no effect! It's about time Microsoft resolved this bug (yes bug, unless they are going to confess it happens by design and with intent!).

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  2. Drew - 460 Reputation points
    2024-11-18T17:07:30+00:00

    1st of all, my name is Drew, not Drew1903.

    2nd, don't know why Edge would getting 'closed' via Task Manager.

    3rd, do not know what is meant be "unwanted, uninvited update". What is the KB number?

    Cheers,
    Drew![](https://learn-attachment.microsoft.com/api/attachments/fb7dcd3c-6cf7-4ceb-8781-d1d9d37246be?platform=QnA

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-12-23T03:23:10+00:00

    This solutions saved my life and allowed me restored 1000++ tabs, fantastic, good job 2EPIC.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-12-23T04:22:35+00:00

    Hi Drew,

    1. Sorry about the name but in the absence of formally knowing someone's name on a forum I find most use the ID as a name. My experience is that if a 'real name' does appear in an ID it does not guarantee that it is the poster's real name.
    2. I usually close Edge via Task Manager so that all windows close together and are (usually, but not on this occasion!) invited to restore them. You will know that if I close open windows one at a time then only the last window to close is invited for restore.
    3. "unwanted, uninvited update" means MS imposed the update without my express permission therefore I had no opportunity to set my computer up in an organised status for the update. I have tasks running 24/7 linked to external databases. If an update runs that restarts my computer it does not restart the link to those databases. I have tried to control the bull in the china shop that is the update by faking that I am on a metered connection but on the time in question the update managed to 'work around' that barrier. :( I have no idea what the KB number was, I was more preoccupied with trying to recover the lost session data and anyway what is lost is lost.

    I have raised this problem on other forums because a solution was not forthcoming and there is a strong theme that Workspaces and/or Collections should give me a tab filing system to fulfil my need but they don't, not even when used together. My strategy when browsing for information/learning is to 'find a website that may be on interest'. If it is of a 'no time now, read later' category the tab remains open in the Workspace until read. Once read if the tab is of future interest it is added to an appropriate Collection and the tab closed, but if it is of immediate interest the tab is not closed and remains open in the Workspace. So the Workspace holds the currently active tabs and the Collection the archive. It is the 'read later' category that is failed when the restore option on opening Edge is not offered.

    I can't see why MS cannot permanently hold the 'open on previous close' information, it's only a list of URLs, wouldn't take up much room. History is no good because that just lists the URLs opened without any helpful filter such as were they closed before the session closed.

    Anyway, that's the problem ... it would be nice if MS took it seriously because clearly from this and other forums I am not the only one who has suffered.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-12-23T21:33:47+00:00

    Hi Lim, I am absolutely delighted to hear that!!! 😁😁😁, really glad my solution worked perfectly for you 👍👍👍 - 1000 tabs recovered! - you're worse than me!! 🤣🤣🤣 - I "only" lost 300-400 tabs across 8 windows, but all of them were also recovered instantly.

    An early ('ish) Christmas present for you! - thanks so much for the great feedback! 😀.

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